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Gift Guide: Sporty and stylish

Posted Saturday, December 23, 2006 at 07:49AM

Gym clothes are a tricky thing: While most every girl wants to work out in sporty style, we often end up stepping onto the elliptical in t-shirts long ago relegated to bedwear and sweatpants that might have carried us through tenth-grade phys ed class. So supercute workout wear should make for a brilliant gift for the gym-going girl on your list - especially if you select something from the adidas by Stella McCartney line. The most covetable piece in that collection, by my account: the Cover Up Hooded Sweatshirt adored by Ohsweetheart. (“Tooo freaking cute,” she coos, and we couldn’t agree more.) For Princess, love’s all about the Cover Up Base Layer Long Sleeve Tee, a longsleeve top that blends dri-release fabric “with a touch of wool” for cold-weather sweating. Princess’s shopcast is something a love note, with Her Royal Highness punctuating her fawning words (“Stella, you make workout gear so pretty”) with a cute little <3. In her pick of Stella’s Softshell Jacket, ThisNexter Mmmonica sums up the seriousness of merging style and sport: “I love the whole idea of bringing a high fashion sensibility to athletic wear,” she says, “so you can look good while you’re red faced, grunting, and dripping sweat.” And Princess again shows she’s mad for McCartney with her selection of the adidas by Stella McCartney Tennis Bag: “I would take up tennis for this bag,” she swoons.

But Stella’s not the only pretty and famous face in the biz of hawking workout gear. The lovely Christy Turlington gives us the Nuala Freetime Bag, perfect for showing off at the gym or the yoga studio. Pinrat prefers the Whodini Handmade Gym Bag, an “amazing one of a kind bag” that gets its gorgeousness from silkscreened patterns and intermixed fabrics. “It’s lightweight and seems to hold my whole world!” says pinrat, adding: “What I love most about carrying a Whodini Handmade bag is how much more fabulous it makes me feel!” Also fabulous is the Puma Originals Grip Bag, which I appreciate for its very retro look: You could totally see one of the Beastie Boys toting this along when they go to meditate or whatever.

My favorite Puma find, though, has gotta be the Finesse Athletic Shoe picked by SusanW. So pretty-pink and fun, they’re like eye candy with an actual function. “My mama friends all swear by their Puma athletic shoes; they are comfortable and more stylish than basic sneakers,” says Susan. “But these are FABULOUS! The stripes! The color! These will spiff up your yoga pants like nothing else.”

Of course, those in the market for some very fetching athletic shoes could always go back to Miss Stella and her a3 Flyrides. “I fell desperately in awe of Stella McCartney’s new collection with adidas,” recalls our Jean. “And after trying on every sneaker I could find on the westside and finding most painfully hideous - these amused me - and were also some of the most comfortable yet!”

See more of my Gift Guide: Sporty and stylish list at ThisNext.

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